metadata/glsa/glsa-200607-11.xml

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<glsa id="200607-11">
  <title>TunePimp: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability in TunePimp has been reported which could lead to the
    execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Tunepimp</product>
  <announced>July 28, 2006</announced>
  <revised>June 01, 2007: 02</revised>
  <bug>140184</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/tunepimp" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.5.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">0.4.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The TunePimp library (also referred to as libtunepimp) is a development
    library geared towards developers who wish to create MusicBrainz
    enabled tagging applications.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Kevin Kofler has reported a vulnerability where three stack variables
    are allocated with 255, 255 and 100 bytes respectively, yet 256 bytes
    are read into each. This could lead to buffer overflows.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    Running an affected version of TunePimp could lead to the execution of
    arbitrary code by a remote attacker.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All tunepimp users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-libs/tunepimp-0.5.&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3600">CVE-2006-3600</uri>
    <uri link="http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/1764">MusicBrainz bug #1764</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:18:27 +0000">
    dizzutch
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:51:46 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>